Europareich 2057 - A Cyberpunk CYOA

[Stygian Lurker]

Path 1.
Laukaitis, Borg, Mazowiecka

 

[oscar]

Path 5
Laukaitis, Borg, Muller

Far better that if we do have to fight it be against the mujahideen then cause a diplomatic incident with a nation whose support the Europareich needs,

 

[Esquilax]

“Frau Feldwebel, does the system take vehicle velocity and the targets relative velocity into account? Can we use the automatic turret tracking function to do that?” Otto asks.

“Assuming you have the time to tag a target and get a distance reading it does.” You tell him. “However it would have to really stand out on the passive sensors, the software responsible for identifying a target isn’t as good as you would want it to be.”

“What if you have radar data Frau Feldwebel? Say a gunship gets picked up by a nearby station, we would have its vector and velocity. Would we be able to shoot it down?” He inquires further.

“Assuming it wouldn’t blast us before it would get in range, maybe we could. But the better automated Gyro-drones would ID our vehicle, determine the threat we pose and start doing evasive maneuvers.”

“So how do we fight drones then?”

“We hope there’s a well placed EMP team nearby which will fry them before they get near. Otherwise we try to hide or hope that their software mistakes us for a garbage truck, school bus or SUV if we’re out in the open.”

The recruits stare at you hopelessly, they don’t like the concept of driving around in a giant drone-magnet.

Let's talk about this little exchange with Richter. He is working with someone big, someone important. And I think that he's probing for weaknesses with his questions and his general spying. I think he might be working for the Russians, or actually Russian himself, and his name is just a German alias.

With that out of the way, I believe that the old adage of "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" applies. I think that we should take Richter with us, ostensibly to support us with his skill in hacking and electronics (the above exchange tells me he has skills in those areas. Also, the fact that he doctored his army scores is another point in his favour), but in reality so that we can keep an eye on him.

Ida is the only one who knows that he's shady, and we can't exactly go up to our superiors before the mission with "lol so I illegally paid a freelance hacker to dig up info on Richter idk bros maybe he's a spy lol". Nor can we leave him here with nobody looking after him. I don't trust telling anybody else about him at the moment, unless it was maybe Skorzeny. Hellraiser, could we have a chat with Skorzeny before we leave, asking him to keep an eye on Richter?

I have to go right now, so I'm not sure which path to pick right now, but I'm certain that we must do something about Richter. We cannot ignore a security threat like him.

 

[oscar]

Though if a fight does break out I don't want us to die or fuck up the mission because of his inaccurate ass.

 

[Arpad]

We should take Richter along so we could keep an eye on him. Can't trust Muller or anyone else to do it. Richter's surely cabable and intelligent - no way some opposing faction would send just anyone to spy and gather information to undermine europareich and he has to help us in our tasks so he can feed his masters with information and raise in ranks to eventually gain access to more confidential information.

Path 2
Muller, Laukaitis, Richter

 

[Baltika9]

Path 5
Laukaitis, Borg, Richter.

 

[Erebus]

Before leaving, we should use what's left on our bank account to hire a lithuanian hitman to kill that fucking hacker who took our money yet didn't tell us anything we didn't already know.


I'm voting for Path 2, with Muller, Borg and Mazowiecka. Muller is the only one of our men with actual experience, it would be foolish to leave him behind on such a dangerous mission.

 

[oscar]

In addition, what use do we have for a hacker in a simple, quick and low-tech smash and grab mission?

 

[Erebus]

In addition, what use do we have for a hacker in a simple, quick and low-tech smash and grab mission?

We don't know where the guy we want to abduct lives in Toledo.

 

[skuphundaku]

I agree with Monty that we should take Path 5. If getting caught by the Spanish is a big no-no while getting to shoot jihadists carries no penalty, quite the opposite, it being XP for our team, then Path 5 is the best choice.

Now, about the team: by taking Path 5, we know that we're going to have to fight our way to Toledo. That means that we need the best people, period. That, in turn, means that we NEED to take Unteroffizier Muller with us. Leaving him to babysit recruits at home and patrol the city is madness. That leaves 2 spots open in the team. One of it has to be Borg, with him being the best shooter and all. The last one is the trickiest: My choice has to be between Laukaitis and Richter. Laukaitis seems to know his way around explosives and explosive devices, so he may be very useful for disarming some traps when we get to Toledo or some IEDs on the way there. On the other hand, Esquilax made a good point that Richter knows far more that what he's showing. I disagree with the fact that he's a Russian spy. If that was the case, that hacker would have let us know and he would have gotten a medal for it. That's definitely not it. I bet that he's not connected to any state or non-state foreign players, because the same would apply as if he were a Russian spy. He definitely knows more about weapons systems than your regular recruit. He is, most likey, working for some powerful Europareich-based corporation that works in the weapons development business. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that he got past basic training although he had no aptitude for it and is the worst shooter ever. The Europareich corporate theory means that he's not really a security risk if we leave him at home to go on boring patrols. His knowledge of weapons systems may get handy in the field, but he doesn't seem like the hands on type and the fact that he's a poor shooter lowers his usefulness in this operation even more. Laukaitis more applied knowledge of explosives may be a better fit for this job, so Laukaitis it is.

So:
Path 5
Team: Muller, Borg, Laukaitis

gear:
Muller and Borg get the rifles
Westgard and Laukaitis get the SMGs

 

[Bloodshifter]

I agree with Monty that we should take Path 5. If getting caught by the Spanish is a big no-no while getting to shoot jihadists carries no penalty, quite the opposite, it being XP for our team, then Path 5 is the best choice.

Now, about the team: by taking Path 5, we know that we're going to have to fight our way to Toledo. That means that we need the best people, period. That, in turn, means that we NEED to take Unteroffizier Muller with us. Leaving him to babysit recruits at home and patrol the city is madness. That leaves 2 spots open in the team. One of it has to be Borg, with him being the best shooter and all. The last one is the trickiest: My choice has to be between Laukaitis and Richter. Laukaitis seems to know his way around explosives and explosive devices, so he may be very useful for disarming some traps when we get to Toledo or some IEDs on the way there. On the other hand, Esquilax made a good point that Richter knows far more that what he's showing. I disagree with the fact that he's a Russian spy. If that was the case, that hacker would have let us know and he would have gotten a medal for it. That's definitely not it. I bet that he's not connected to any state or non-state foreign players, because the same would apply as if he were a Russian spy. He definitely knows more about weapons systems than your regular recruit. He is, most likey, working for some powerful Europareich-based corporation that works in the weapons development business. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that he got past basic training although he had no aptitude for it and is the worst shooter ever. The Europareich corporate theory means that he's not really a security risk if we leave him at home to go on boring patrols. His knowledge of weapons systems may get handy in the field, but he doesn't seem like the hands on type and the fact that he's a poor shooter lowers his usefulness in this operation even more. Laukaitis more applied knowledge of explosives may be a better fit for this job, so Laukaitis it is.

So:
Path 5
Team: Muller, Borg, Laukaitis

gear:
Muller and Borg get the rifles
Westgard and Laukaitis get the SMGs

Besides the fact that we would be leaving our squad without a officer solid plan

 

[skuphundaku]

I agree with Monty that we should take Path 5. If getting caught by the Spanish is a big no-no while getting to shoot jihadists carries no penalty, quite the opposite, it being XP for our team, then Path 5 is the best choice.

Now, about the team: by taking Path 5, we know that we're going to have to fight our way to Toledo. That means that we need the best people, period. That, in turn, means that we NEED to take Unteroffizier Muller with us. Leaving him to babysit recruits at home and patrol the city is madness. That leaves 2 spots open in the team. One of it has to be Borg, with him being the best shooter and all. The last one is the trickiest: My choice has to be between Laukaitis and Richter. Laukaitis seems to know his way around explosives and explosive devices, so he may be very useful for disarming some traps when we get to Toledo or some IEDs on the way there. On the other hand, Esquilax made a good point that Richter knows far more that what he's showing. I disagree with the fact that he's a Russian spy. If that was the case, that hacker would have let us know and he would have gotten a medal for it. That's definitely not it. I bet that he's not connected to any state or non-state foreign players, because the same would apply as if he were a Russian spy. He definitely knows more about weapons systems than your regular recruit. He is, most likey, working for some powerful Europareich-based corporation that works in the weapons development business. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that he got past basic training although he had no aptitude for it and is the worst shooter ever. The Europareich corporate theory means that he's not really a security risk if we leave him at home to go on boring patrols. His knowledge of weapons systems may get handy in the field, but he doesn't seem like the hands on type and the fact that he's a poor shooter lowers his usefulness in this operation even more. Laukaitis more applied knowledge of explosives may be a better fit for this job, so Laukaitis it is.

So:
Path 5
Team: Muller, Borg, Laukaitis

gear:
Muller and Borg get the rifles
Westgard and Laukaitis get the SMGs

Besides the fact that we would be leaving our squad without a officer solid plan

I see no problem with that. We tell them "stay out of trouble, no matter what" and that's about it. If they need hand-holding even in order to, essentially, do nothing until we get back, then the intelligence levels in Europareich are truly deplorable.

 

[Storyfag]

Path 5
Team: Muller, Borg, Laukaitis

 

[laclongquan]

Take Muller along. IT's a combat mission, unthinkable that a non-commissioned officer like him will stay behind, from your point of view and HIS point of view. If he refuse or reluctant to go with us, it means he's worthless.

Take Richer along. Combat mission is a good way to know him personally. Plus, if there's anything we dont like the road will be very long and littered with body.

Path5: Keeping secret is worth more than safety. Beside, posing as smugglers have certain advantage: we can smuggle goods ourselves. It's dangerous but 2 long guns and two shorts is heavy equipment for smugglers but not too much that raise alarms.

 

[oscar]

Hellraiser, whose command does the squad fall under if we take Muller?

 

[Hellraiser]

Hellraiser, whose command does the squad fall under if we take Muller?

Random NCO who doesn't have his own squad.

 

[Esquilax]

Hacking could be extremely useful for a lot of things. Finding out the location of patrols, checkpoints, that sort of thing. It might allow us to bypass without them figuring out that we're from the Europareich. And that's in addition to being able to zero in on our target's location once we get to Toledo. Is this the case, Hellraiser? Or is going through a checkpoint pretty much asking for our cover to be blown? In any case, we should try to avoid direct confrontation wherever possible: what the hell do you think, that we can take on teams of pirates with a green, four-man squad? Get real. The General himself said that if we were smart, we could find the target without firing a bullet.

“You’ll leave from Corsica, we have a strong grip on the waters there until about halfway to your target. After that you’re at risk of running into corsairs or the bulk of the Spanish fleet. Path 2 makes you set foot in Catalonia, the roads there are good and fairly safe so it’s the fastest way to Toledo. But they’re safe for a reason, they’re patrolled often. There is the risk of being pulled over even if you avoid checkpoints. Path 3 is pretty similar, however there is a key difference. The patrols there are very paranoid about Islamists, so they pull over people a lot more often.”

Based on this, I think that we should avoid confrontation and hide in plain sight. Yes, we have weapons on us and IIRC none of our bros speak the same language, but I'm confident that we can come up with a suitable cover story.

Voting Path 2 for now.
Team: Borg, Laukaitis, Richter

 

[Hellraiser]

Checkpoints are everywhere, however as mentioned the EuroSats should spot most of them in advance allowing you to avoid them without looking suspicious. Even if you fail to avoid one, there is a chance that they won't be as thorough as they should. Depends on your luck.



You still have a fate point, in case shit goes south.

 

[Commissar Draco]

5 as we can by pass checkpoints and Patrols would be less frequent... we can bribe some of Neoberbers and take down smaller groups of them.
Laukaitis, Borg, Richter we need 2 soldiers, grenadier and hacker on this mission, let the Muller rough up train the rest.

 

[Esquilax]

5 as we can by pass checkpoints and Patrols would be less frequent... we can bribe some of Neoberbers and take down smaller groups of them.
Laukaitis, Borg, Richter we need 2 soldiers, grenadier and hacker on this mission, let the Muller rough up train the rest.

Actually, we can't. We spent all of our money on that hacker:

“Hello, is this Testudo Digital?”

“Yes, may I help you with anything Madame?” An Italian voice answers, the sound quality of the zp-3910 is underwhelming to say the least.

“I need to recover some data, it got lost sometime in the past on the Net. It may have been *obscured* by the passage of time. You know how it is.”

“Of course Madame, I can dig it up. But what kind of data are we talking about?”

“The name is Otto Richter, date of birth 15.02.2031, Europa Bundesreich ID 3122157462. Find me everything that got *lost*, send to seniorita732@ajaxmail.gr”

“That will be 51k Euro, but I want it paid in rupees to my account using the current exchange rate posted today on the site of the Indian Central Bank. You will find my account number on my website website.”

He hangs up.

Fifty one thousand, that’s more than you make in a month, luckily you have some cash saved up. After paying for the service and the phone you are left with 23000 Euro on your account. The army is paying you 27000 on the 5th and you get 4000 more for renting your apartment in Oslo. Well, you’ll see if the hacker is worth the 51000 you paid him. You dump the phone in a nearby garbage can after erasing the call data.

If we encounter pirates, we had better fucking be ready to fight, or we're going out in a body bag. If we have no money to transfer to the pirates, well, we're no good to them, are we? So it's either fight them or avoid them.

 

[Hellraiser]

You don't need a hacker. McKay will use the uplink to hack shit that needs to be hacked without being traced. You'll use it to locate the target and later to download all his stuff that isn't on seperate drives (it's got ridiculous broadband which will make it easy and fast).

 

[Commissar Draco]

Damn it, indeed we're broke and don't need hacker Yes? Then take Mazowiecka instead of Richter, she can fight and in the worst case scenario we can sell her ass to Berbers. Route 5 stays as we're to avoid incident with Spaniards at all cost... I am surprised they're no Euroreich backed vigilantes/militia/death squads the guide from them would be God send.

 

[Seerix]

Path 5 and take Richter with you. If he's a spy and being well aware of his low scores he may get suspicious as to why he was chosen and may act upon it. And then he may get KIA...

Also, awesome CYOA, Hellraiser. I hope it won't end like the last one.

 

[Hellraiser]

The results:

Muller, aaaaa
Laukaitis, aaaaaaaaa
Borg, aaaaaaaaa
Mazowiecka, aaa
Richter, aaaaa

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Richter and Muller were tied, but the last vote for Muller was earlier so we're going with that. The next chapter will be posted soon.

 

[Esquilax]

Hellraiser, nobody voted for Beauvais, pretty much everyone wanted Borg to come with us. I think you mixed it up.